Law firm seeking 1MDB consent to disclose privileged material

Rosli Dahlan Saravana Partnership (RDS) has written to 1MDB to seek the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund’s permission to disclose privileged and confidential material.

The law firm’s partner Palpanaban Devarajoo stated this in an affidavit in reply to MACC’s court action for it to hand over several documents in a probe into a settlement entered between Goldman Sachs and the Malaysian government on the US$6.5 billion 1MDB bond issue.

“The firm has written to our former client, 1MDB, on Oct 16 seeking for its consent and authority to disclose privileged and confidential material insofar as the same is relevant to the...